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IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (JAPAN)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

1-GO minesweepers (1923-1925)

1-go 1941

1-go 1944

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
第1号掃海艇 [1-go]     Harima, Harima 1922 6.3.1923 6.1923 sunk 10.8.1945
2号掃海艇 [2-go]     Mitsui, Tamano 1922 17.3.1923 6.1923 sunk 1.3.1942
3号掃海艇 [3-go]     Hitachi, Sakurajima 1922 29.3.1923 6.1923 sunk 9.4.1945
4号掃海艇 [4-go]     Sasebo K K 12.1923 24.4.1924 4.1925 captured 8.1945, scuttled 13.7.1946

   

Displacement standard, t

615

Displacement normal, t

702

Length, m

71.6 pp 74.3 wl 76.3 oa

Breadth, m

8.03

Draught, m

2.29

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 3 Kampon boilers

Power, h. p.

4000

Max speed, kts

20

Fuel, t

coal 186

Endurance, nm(kts) 3000(10)

Armament

2 x 1 - 120/45 3-shiki, 1 x 1 - 76/40 11-shiki, mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

92

Project history: Built under the 1922 programme. First Japanese purpose-built minesweepers.

Modernizations: 1938, all: permanent ballast was added, full displacement was 807t; - 1 x 1 - 76/40.

1944, all survived: - 1 x 1 - 120/45, mechanical minesweeping gear; + 1 x 2 - 25/60 96-shiki, 3 x 1 - 25/60 96-shiki, 2 DCT (36), 2-shiki 2-go or 3-shiki 1-go radar, 93-shiki hydrophone

Naval service: W2 was lost 1.3.1942 on a mine in Bantam Bay, Java. W1 was sunk 10.8.1945 at coast of Japan (Yamada Bay) by US carrier aircraft. W3 9.4.1945 was sunk at coast of Japan (NE off Sendai) by US submarine Parche.

 

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